Xenofon Zolotas (Greece: Ξενοφών Ζολώτας) (Athens, March 26, 1904 - June 10, 2004) was a prominent Greek economist and short-term prime minister of Greece.
Zolotas studied economics at the University of Athens, and later in Leipzig and Paris. He came from a wealthy family of goldsmiths. In 1928, he became Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. This function lasted until 1968. Then he resigned as a protest against the setting of the colonel regime.
In 1946 he was board member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. During the period from 1946 to 1981 he also attended various important posts within the International Monetary Fund. In the periods from 1944 to 1945, 1955 to 1967 and 1974 to 1981 he was also governor of the Bank of Greece. He also published a large number of books on economic subjects. He also became familiar with two speeches in English for which he only used words that originated in Greek.
At the Greek parliamentary elections in November 1989, none of the parties knew to be an absolute majority. The non-party Zolotas therefore agreed to form a government in which all parties were represented until the new elections. At these elections in April 1990, Nea Dimokratia managed to form an absolute majority under the leadership of Constandinos Mitsotakis. Mitsotakis followed Xenotas as prime minister.
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